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Yet, in another he was a remote and elusive figure, his monk-like austerity and seriousness out of place in an era of conspicuous superfluity.

"When it's too easy getting matches it takes the seriousness out of it.

Banks creates a genuine page-turner, laced with real ethical seriousness, out of this ambivalence.

"It takes some of the seriousness out of yoga and life," Davis said, as she asked us to move into downward dog.

Here are just a few suggestions to take all the seriousness out of staying cool: Turn on the sprinklers, gather your friends and run through them for a time.

But in these labor-intensive works, seriousness wins out and seriousness is not a Kahn/Selesnick strong suit.

The copulating-bunnies routine aside — it formed the climax to Purcell's Masque of Seduction — Kent treated the work with admirable seriousness, bringing out its more unsettling resonances; the fairies wore black wings and looked eerily batlike.

But he also recognized the seriousness of being singled out by someone seen to channel the will of the state.

But the situation is now so out of hand that I can't even use the old comedian's trick of saying, "But seriously, ladies and gentlemen... .. Seriousness is out of the window in the Middle East, replaced by armed victimhood, desperate martyrdom and retaliation with Pentagon hardware.

Cold war seriousness would be out, Rat Pack glamour in.

This was significant and, at the time, outrageous – in 1969, it must have seemed that seriousness had won out for good, with levity confined to novelty singles and bubblegum.